Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2015 | Page 6

6 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au fIcTIoN the BeaSt’S garden Marriage of oppoSiteS Kate Forsyth RRP $32.99 Alice Hoffman RRP $29.99 It’s 1939. As Berlin is bombed into ruins, the Gestapo ruthlessly hunt down all resistance and Ava finds herself living a hand-to-mouth existence in the rubble of the shell-shocked city. Filled with danger, intrigue and romance, The Beast’s Garden, a retelling of the Grimm brothers’ Beauty and The Beast, is a beautiful, compelling love story set in a time when the world seemed on the brink of collapse. From the author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history’s most captivating ‘invisible’ women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. The controversial marriage of Rachel to Frédéric, her deceased husband’s nephew, is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love. the taMing of the Queen Philippa Gregory RRP $32.99 fANTASy fool’S QueSt – fitz and the fool 2 A leader of religious reform and the first woman to publish in English, Kateryn Parr stands out as an independent woman with a mind of her own. But she cannot save the Protestants, under threat for their faith, and Henry’s dangerous gaze turns on her. The traditional churchmen and rivals for Our Price power accuse her of heresy - the punishment is death by fire and the $ 99 king’s name is on the warrant... Robin Hobb RRP $29.99 Robin Hobb returns to her best loved characters with the second volume in this brand new series. Happy endings never last…Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers on Aslevjal. Then they parted ways, the Fool returning to Clerres, while Fitz finally claimed a wife and family. Now, betrayed by his own people and broken Our Price by torment, the Fool has made $ 99 his way back to the Six Duchies. 27 Also available by Philippa Gregory the king’S curSe RRP $19.99 24 Now in paperback the firSt confeSSor the gilded hour Terry Goodkind RRP $32.99 Sara Donati RRP $32.99 due 1St SepteMBer Now, The Sword of Truth Series concludes with two volumes: The First Confessor takes readers back in time to events that led to the forging of the Sword of Truth, while Warheart, released later this year, completes Richard Cypher’s story. From the author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors. It is 1883, and in New York City it’s a time of dizzying splendour, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. Dr Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie, treat the city’s most vulnerable. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel. the Shepherd’S croWn Terry Pratchett RRP $45.00 the BourBon kingS J.R.Ward RRP $29.99 This is Sir Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, which features the witch Tiffany Aching. The New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood delivers the first novel in an enthralling new series set amid the shifting dynamics of a Southern family defined by wealth and compromised by secrets, deceit, and scandal... Our Price 4000 $ due 27th auguSt